The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1887-05-07

IT is said Of the La Crosse Masonic
Temple Association that over so per
cent. OF Its capital stock is paid in,
namoiy s., 600. w. E. Kittredge has
been elected TO the presidency.
THE La Crosse Gaslight Company
has reduced its rate to 81 per 1000
feet.
Two men are reported to have
drowned near Ashland, while collecting
DRIFT timber.
THE state convention OF the Wo-
mans Christian Temperance Union of
Wisconsin will meet in Eau Claire in
June.
SURVEYOR, are running a line from
Rhinelander toward St. Paul. 1t is
thought the survey Is in the interest
Of the Milwaukee, Lake Shore & West
err Company.
The recently published romance
about the finding of box OF gold in
the cellar OF a Mi waukee house pr ives
to have been fictitious.
THE Wisconsin State Teachers As
soCiation meets in Milwaukee in June.
OSEIDA County had but three cases
on her first court calendar.
THE Northern Wisconsin 6. A L.
Association vii hold its first annual
reunion at Marshfe,d.
CHAs W. LLOYD, who was committed
to jail at Madison for six months, be.
ing unable TO give bonds to the
amount OF $500 as an assurance that
he would keep the peace, is now charged
with peljury.
La CROSSE has sixteen miles OF water
pipe, 1873 hydrants and S45 takers
During the past year the city received
I'll 1872. 5S for water rents. The cost
OF operating was $i3,T12, and the
works represent an expenditure OF
$l69. BOG.
One hundred and TIVE ty applica.
tions for saloon licenses were received
in one evening by the common council
of La Crosse.
One of the rotary saws OF A. S
Trow E Co. S mills at La crosse, burst,
flying into thousand pieces. No one
was seriously injured.
: M DOuy VI JOuLl 1it " n ilSs WHO
was drowned near the Flambeau
Rapids on Tuesday was recovered and
taken TO Eau Claire for burial.
ABOUT six months ago Henry j.
Peters, who kept a saloon and grocery
at the corner OF Scott Street and First
Avenle, Milwaukee, dice. Peters
owned considerable property, but
lived ike q poor man, dressing In the
most common attire and depriving
himself OF many little comforts that
were within the reach O. his income.
When ne died he left no ~,.., and fail
ed to give his family any clue TO the
Whereabouts OF his savings. He told
them, however, that they would not
want for anything. Now 1t Is reported
that recently, in repairing a sewer in
the basement OF the Peters residence,
q heavy box filed with gold was
found, containing nearly 100000.
The heirs are the widow and three
children.
SIR ALEXANDER ANDERSON, founder
OF the Wisconsin Marine and Fire In
suTanCe Company, VINO sent the late
Alexander Mitchell out from Scotland
to manage his business, died IN Scot
land about a week before Mr.. Mitchell s
death.
BOUNTTES we're paid on seventeen
wolves killed in La Crosse County dur
ing the winter.
John MCINTYRE, who attempted to
shoot man in the dlning-rOOm OF the
Republican House. Milwaukee, for al
legged intimacy with his wife, without
being at all certain whether he was
the right one or not, was fined 500
and costs by the court.
THE body OF a man was found upon
the track near Prentice, 2 few days
ago, after q train mad passed. 1t Is
said the man aud 2 companion were
ttscsed by TOugns, knocked senseless
and left upon the track, one recover
ing in time to escape the train.
A BUILDING Is TO be put upthis sum
mer aC Grand Crossing, near La
Crosse, by the Chicago, Burlington &
Northern Railroad Company for the
use and benefit oithelr employees. The
building is TO be OF pressed brick, with
all the latest and most mOderA fea-
lures. The interior arrangement will
make it one OF the finest buildings in
La Crosse.
The contract Tor building the La
Crosse County insane asylum has been
let for S22 600. This is exclusive OF
the painting and Of the foundation
and brick contracts already made 1t
will make the total cost OF the build
ing $24, 600.
CHARLES ". LoYD, OF Madison, goes
TO lail for six months in default OF
$500 bal, resulting from & threat to
kill his sister-inlaw.
ANALySis has shown that the bro sn
dust that tell through the Chippewa
Valley on the night OF April was not
meteoTiC dust, as at first was sup.
posed, but was ordinary quartz dust.
ABOUT forty men, with eighteen
wagons and about sixty horses, passed
through Eau Claire on the Z6th on
their way from Garden Valley and
other points III Trempealeau County
to Dakota. They will team 1t all the
wav to 81. Paul, where they take the
cars. They 90 to work on the Mani
tOba railroad extension, and many Ot
them will probably take up home,
steads IN Dakota. Many OF the eml-
grants are married, but they have left
their wives behind them for tae
present.
IL the cases Of George and Charles
Wicks, who were arrested last year
for keeping a gambling house in Mad.
isOn, Charles was fined 800 and
costs. In the case Of George sentence
was suspended.
Four Of the men on trial for com.
plicity in the Bay View riots last May
have been convicted.
THE city attorney-elect OF La Crosse
refuses to accept the office, and new
election will have to be held.
Is the case OF Geo. ". Lusted
against the Chicago & Northwestern
Railway Company, sn action tried a.
Madison, in which the plaintiff ASKS
damages fOr personal injuries, the Jury
awarded TO the plaintiff 1000.
THE body OF Bidweil Alderman, the
young farmer who was drowned ia tne
Kickapoo River, March ., IN the
presence OF his family, by The break
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